Wake up! Christ the King is coming. All this world is going to pass away. When Christ the King comes, he will separate believers from unbelievers like a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. Believers will be welcomed to eternal life in heaven. Unbelievers will be condemned to eternity in hell. So the Bible encourages, “The hour has already come for you to wake up from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed” (Romans 13:11). It’s easy to fall asleep in sin. It’s dangerous to fall asleep in sin. Christ the King is coming! I hope you can listen to this Advent sermon: “Wake Up!” Jesus loves you!

What is “grace”? That’s a word that gets thrown around a lot in the Christian church. But what does it mean? What is grace?Here’s a great Bible verse to illustrate God’s grace: “God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8).I hope you can listen to this short devotion about God’s undeserved love for you and me.Jesus loves you!

“If I sin, do I lose my salvation?” We know that sin is bad. God hates sin. Yet, even as Christians, we still sin. Every time we sin, do we lose our salvation?Here’s the Bible’s answer: “My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have an Advocate with the Father–Jesus Christ the Righteous One” (1 John 2:1).I hope you can listen to this short devotion about the good news that our salvation doesn’t depend on our sinlessness but on Jesus’ forgiveness and grace.Jesus loves you!

When you think about it, the Bible’s message really sounds foolish. The Bible calls all human beings sinful. Who wants to hear that? Then the Bible says that God himself came into our world and let himself be killed on a cross to save us from our sins. Doesn’t that sound crazy? On top of that, the Bible says that after three days, Jesus raised himself back to life and promises eternal life in heaven to all who believe in him. Doesn’t that sound foolish? But it’s true! “The message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God” (1 Corinthians 1:18). I hope you can listen to this funeral sermon for a very intelligent Christian woman who believed the foolish message of God’s salvation for her through Jesus Christ her Savior. Jesus loves you!

What’s a Lutheran? With all the different Christian denominations, that’s a fair question for people to ask. What’s a Lutheran?For centuries, Lutherans have summarized their biblical beliefs with three short phrases: By Grace Alone. By Faith Alone. By Scripture Alone.I hope you can listen to this short devotion about what a Lutheran is and how everything we believe and teach is based on God’s grace to us through Jesus. Jesus loves you!

The end of the world is coming. Can you sense that? Ever since Jesus died and rose for us, we have been living in the “End Times,” waiting for Jesus to come back to judge the living and the dead. Before his return, Jesus promised there would be wars and rumors of wars, famines and earthquakes, and persecution of Christians. Do you see those things happening? Yes! The end of the world is coming. Yet, sadly, there are all sorts of false teachings associated with the end of the world. You’ve heard about the rapture and millennialism. Do you realize that neither of those is true? It’s vital for everyone to know the truth about the end of the world, and, thankfully, Jesus himself describes exactly what’s going to happen before the great day when he returns to take his people home to heaven. I hope you can listen to this sermon: “The End Times.” Jesus loves you!

What good can come from this? You’ve asked that. When trials and troubles come, our faith is tested, and we ask, “What good can come from this?”Here’s an answer from the Bible: “God comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God” (2 Corinthians 1:4).I hope you can listen to this short devotion about how God comforts us in our troubles so that we can comfort others with the comfort we’ve received from God. God bless you!

God wants you to forever connect two things: A wedding and a funeral. At first, they might seem to have nothing to do with each other. But that couldn’t be further from the truth. Each wedding gives us a taste of the wedding in heaven. Thankfully, you’re on the Jesus' guest list too! You’ve been washed in Jesus’ blood and clothed with his righteousness. Your groom, Jesus, just hasn’t come to pick you up yet. But he will, and God will wipe away every tear from your eyes. “Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb!” (Revelation 19:9)